brian.shapiro said:
Ray7 said:
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I find I disagree though, if you don't have the resources to put things into practice you shouldn't be excluded from having a patent. Most software patents should be thrown out because they don't have any real ingenuity to them, or are too vague.
The trick is not to look at which patents have been _granted_, but to look at which patents have been _granted and held up in court_. It's not hard to persuade a non-technical judge that such-and-such is a very clever non-obvious invention. It's much harder to persuade someone else's lawyers who have a reason to want to overturn it.